Potentially eligible players thread

**dr_peepee** · 11/09/2015, 9:25 AM

Originally Posted by SkStu

Lots of the social media tabloids claiming that JG has made his decision and it ain't us. Picked up a new agent over the summer who painted the financial implications of going with Ireland as opposed to England. Hopefully it's all just speculation as he has obviously not said anything at all but a couple of places are running with it.

His Da came out this morning and said it was all rubbish. He's not committed either way yet.

It's almost as frustrating as the Stephen Ireland saga!!!... Almost.

**** or get off the pot!!

**tetsujin1979** · 11/09/2015, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by DeLorean

Looks like he's been ineligible since 2013 according to that.

Pretty sure he's been discussed here before, and he's not eligible at all.

**DeLorean** · 11/09/2015, 10:07 AM

Yeah I was thinking that, about being discussed before. Presumed he'd nearly have to be eligible though. Must be talking great grandparents or something so, or beyond.

**Charlie Darwin** · 11/09/2015, 10:31 AM

The Delaney roots are from America so it's probably a couple of generations too far back.

**The Fly** · 11/09/2015, 10:36 AM

Whilst on this, can someone tell me how exactly Harry Kane was eligible to play for us? I seem to recall reading somewhere that his father is from Galway but I'm not sure if that was confirmed or not.

**TrapAPony** · 11/09/2015, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by SkStu

Lots of the social media tabloids claiming that JG has made his decision and it ain't us. Picked up a new agent over the summer who painted the financial implications of going with Ireland as opposed to England. Hopefully it's all just speculation as he has obviously not said anything at all but a couple of places are running with

His dad debunked it last night. Surely if JG was going to play for England then his dad wouldn't deny it at this stage considering JG is supposed to make a decision at the end of this month

**Olé Olé** · 11/09/2015, 10:46 AM

Originally Posted by The Fly

Whilst on this, can someone tell me how exactly Harry Kane was eligible to play for us? I seem to recall reading somewhere that his father is from Galway but I'm not sure if that was confirmed or not.

I know he confirmed in an interview that his father was Irish but that he was reared English himself. Now, I'm not sure if he meant that his father was Irish-born or born to Irish parent(s) so the ambiguity prevails.

In attempting to find the interview, I've found this one in which he seems to refer to his father as an England follower: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...ake-smile.html

He was non-runner for us, it appears. Agents getting involved skewed MON's perspective on the likelihood of him playing for us and I'd worry that the same thing will occur with JG.

**DannyInvincible** · 11/09/2015, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

The Delaney roots are from America so it's probably a couple of generations too far back.

Aye, Delaney's roots are via the US. He was discussed here a few years ago: http://foot.ie/threads/154051-Thomas-Delaney

I emailed the FAI about him in July of 2011. They acknowledged my alert, but nothing ever became of it, obviously.

**DeLorean** · 11/09/2015, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by The Fly

Whilst on this, can someone tell me how exactly Harry Kane was eligible to play for us? I seem to recall reading somewhere that his father is from Galway but I'm not sure if that was confirmed or not.

Close enough

Originally Posted by Daniel McDonnell Indo

He qualifies for Ireland through a Galway connection on his father's side.

**DeLorean** · 11/09/2015, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by TrapAPony

His dad debunked it last night. Surely if JG was going to play for England then his dad wouldn't deny it at this stage considering JG is supposed to make a decision at the end of this month

The same thought occurred to me. Wishful thinking maybe!

**DannyInvincible** · 11/09/2015, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by The Fly

Whilst on this, can someone tell me how exactly Harry Kane was eligible to play for us? I seem to recall reading somewhere that his father is from Galway but I'm not sure if that was confirmed or not.

His father was born in Galway, as far as I know.

These articles mention Galway as being the birthplace of his father:

Dan McDonnell described his eligibility as spawning from "a Galway connection on his father's side", however: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-31062894.html

It doesn't rule out the possibility of his father being Galway-born, but is that an odd way to phrase it if the father himself was born in Galway? Would (a mere) "connection" imply one or both of the father's parents might have been from Galway and not actually the father himself? I'm not sure.

**IsMiseSean** · 11/09/2015, 7:16 PM

Harry Kane's father is from Connemara (Renvyle or Recess I think) & emigrated in his late teens/early 20's.
They still have plenty of cousins around the Clifden area. At least that's what I've been told.

**TrapAPony** · 11/09/2015, 7:29 PM

Harry Kane was badly reared so. Father obviously didn't instil any Irishness in him.

**IsMiseSean** · 11/09/2015, 7:54 PM

That's the first thing that came to my mind when I heard.
Then to see him singing GSTQ so passionately, I thought his father has failed him.

**Stuttgart88** · 11/09/2015, 8:25 PM

Originally Posted by TrapAPony

Harry Kane was badly reared so. Father obviously didn't instil any Irishness in him.

and yet I get ridiculed as Superdad when my supremely gifted son wears his Ireland kit EVERY day. Can't win really

**SkStu** · 11/09/2015, 10:26 PM

I, for one, have pinned my hopes on Stutts and the quality of his progeny as the only viable solution to our footballing woes.

**Olé Olé** · 11/09/2015, 11:18 PM

Originally Posted by IsMiseSean

That's the first thing that came to my mind when I heard.
Then to see him singing GSTQ so passionately, I thought his father has failed him.

This is what I don't get about it: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...ake-smile.html

He speaks about going down the local with his family to watch the England matches and how his old man brought him and brother to see England v Switzerland in 2008. That seems very strange from an Irish-born man. That said, my old man used to religiously go to Twickenham when I lived in England as a young lad... to support Ireland when we played them in the rugby.

**IsMiseSean** · 12/09/2015, 7:06 PM

I've never seen that before. That makes me doubt the information I've heard.
I'll dig a little deeper the next time I'm back in Clifden.

**paul_oshea** · 12/09/2015, 7:44 PM

Originally Posted by IsMiseSean

I've never seen that before. That makes me doubt the information I've heard.
I'll dig a little deeper the next time I'm back in Clifden.

consequently I know a few Kanes here who are big supporters of spurs and from renvyle/Clifden. Ive never asked if they are a relation but I must ask as one will know the family anyway if they're from there.